AURIS Finance is an independent advisor firm offering a wide range of investment banking and financing services, including devising complex financial operations.
AURIS Finance is made up of specialists who are intimately familiar with your industry.
Renown experts constitute the core of AURIS Finance’s team. They are former company executives who can boast of several decades of experience and who fully master all aspects of company mergers.
HR, temporary work, recruiting
Jacques ROBOH
Jacques ROBOH
Jacques has devoted most of his career to managing human resources and temporary employment businesses. He has built up a group of service companies generating close to €100 million in revenue all together.
Jacques founded AURIS Finance in 2000, and now focuses exclusively on mergers & acquisitions and structured products advisory
Agribusiness, consumer products, supply chain
Olivier KOPP
Olivier KOPP
Oliver spent most of his career in the Food industry. He held several managerial positions in several international groups : Unilever, Bongrain, Campbell’s Soup… He went on to become the head of SCAMARK in 1997. SCAMARK is the Private Labels division of E.Leclerc group.
In 2007, he took over through LBOs the biscuit producers Traou Mad and Millcrepes. After helping them grow strategically and monitoring them for five years, he sold them and joined the AURIS Finance team.
Industrials, energy
Denis FRANCILLARD
Denis FRANCILLARD
Graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique and Ensta, Denis has worked for the French Treasury Department as a specialist in distressed companies. Thereafter he joined the oil holding ERAP as Executive VP, then of CDR-Participations before being appointed head of the subsidiaries and minority interests of Areva.
He has been a financial and strategic advisor for the industrial and energy sectors since 2009. Denis is also an independent director on the board of a subsidiary of Banque Publique d’Investissement (BPI).
Chemicals, cosmetics, plastics manufacturing
Patrice ESNAULT
Patrice ESNAULT
Patrice spent the majority of his career in the chemicals and plastics manufacturing industries.
He held over 20 years positions of Financial Director, CEO, and Business Unit Manager within major international companies, both in France as internationally: Ciba Specialty Chemicals, Clariant…
In his various roles, Patrice created, led and oversaw numerous M&A deals.
Financing
Antoine de NICOLAY
Antoine de NICOLAY
Antoine has held – over last 25 years – various responsibilities within Investment and Financing banks (Worms Deutsche Bank, HSBC) until joining a debt/equity financing advisory firm.
His expertise lies in private debt origination, IPOs, structured financing (LBOs…), debt refinancing, forex derivative products, cash flow financing.
Retail, Luxury & Food Industry
Frédéric VERBRUGGHE
Frédéric VERBRUGGHE
Frederic joined Auris Finance after having led – over 15 years – companies in the high-end agri-food market (CEO of Fauchon, GM of La Grande Epicerie de Paris, CEO of Boulangerie Thierry).
Graduated from the Essec Business School, he has worked as an auditor at Coopers & Lybrand, and then as CFO and GM of VVF (Leisure & Tourism) and Darty (Retail)
IT, Electronic & Telecom
Eric MAGNAUDET
Eric MAGNAUDET
Eric has spent most of his career in the IT, Telecom and Defense industries.
Graduated from SUPELEC engineering school, Eric has held the positions of CTO, Development director and CEO within international groups (Thales, Vivendi, SFR, Steria) for which he managed several mergers and acquisitions operations as well as restructuring plans.
Industrial and Engineering Services / Industrial equipment
Henri-Jacques VAN TICHELEN
Henri-Jacques VAN TICHELEN
Graduated in civil engineering / MBA, Henri-Jacques has spent most of his professional career in industrial equipment and services, such as engineering.
Henri-Jacques has managed, both in France as well as in Belgium, several leading industrial actors and, within these, he has realized a number M&A operations: sale, acquisition and restructuring operations. He has also been associated to private equity funds in a family group take-over through LBO.
Based in Brussels, Henri-Jacques has joined Auris Finance in order to develop its activities in Europe.
Services to businesses
Eric Laune
Eric Laune
For more than 20 years, Eric fulfilled managerial functions of Business Unit in provision of services to businesses (Human Resources, part-time work, multiservice and Facility Management) within international large-scale groups such as ELIOR and ATALIAN.In this framework, he actively took part in the working-out of strategic plans aiming at developing new fields of abilities or at defining new orientations; leading to the setting-up of transfer and acquisition operations. Eric also contributed to create and develop a “G.I.E.” (= Organization for Economic Interest) to meet European invitations to tender.
We value a close relationship with our clients, and understand their expectations
Simplicity
We keep it simple when presenting our methods and our role in the complex world of mergers and acquisitions.
Promptness
The entire team is at your disposal and will swiftly react to answer any questions or concerns you may have.
Transparency
Our team will keep you informed of the steps we have taken and of our overall progress on the mission you’ve given us : you know what we are doing for you, and why we are doing it at all times.
Experience
Our know-how is based on our team’s vast combined experience, and knowledge and understanding of several professions.
Confidentiality
As soon as we start working together, we will draw up a formal contract that guarantees the confidentiality of your project and of the data you provide us with.
Network
We have at our disposal a large network of experts from different fields that we can draw upon to help us meet your needs (legal, fiscal, wealth management, real estate...).
We apply a proven method to our assignments.
Our method is simple, straight-forward and efficient, and will allow you to meet with only the most relevant and qualified experts to bring about your sale or acquisition project.
Our servicesAURIS Finance’s industry-specific knowledge was a determining factor in succeeding in finding the most relevant buyers and organizing a controlled auction. The firm went above and beyond their professional duty to tenaciously defend our interests.
A few representative transactions
Acquired company
Acquirer’s advisor
Was sold to company
Sole advisor of the sellers
Was sold to Group
Shareholders’ advisor
